:format(jpg):watermark(cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/5IDEBLR7ERC5TMAPLOHS63MVNM.png,0,30,0,100)/cloudfront-eu-central-1.images.arcpublishing.com/ipmgroup/YO5EG44LXZECNG4DW7E2DPLVJ4.jpg "ATP Madrid: David Goffin advances to second qualifying round")
The Liégeois, 55th in the world, won in two sets 6-3, 7-6 (7/3) after 1 hour and 35 minutes of play against the Czech Jiri Vesely (ATP 74) for his first match in this ATP tournament on clay endowed with 6,744,165 euros. It was the second duel between Goffin, 31, and Vesely, 28. The first took place in 2016 on hard court in Tokyo, where the Belgian won 6-3, 7-5.
David Goffin, seeded 8th in qualifying, will face the winner of the match between American Marcos Giron (ATP 53/N.7) and Chilean Alejandro Tabilo (ATP 91) for a place in the final draw.
The Belgian number 1 again left the top 50 at the beginning of the month, which forced him to go through the qualifying box of the Madrid tournament, of which he had reached the quarter-finals in 2017. This is the first time since the Winston-Salem tournament in 2014 that he must qualify for an ATP tournament.
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